there are 300 million of us. and while we all feel for this event, reality is 300 million people did not experience it. the tragic irony of this and the continuation of these types of incidents, and they will continue, is that the outrage is expressed against the perpetrator and the act, is not then reflected in the part of the general public about wanting to do something about the instruments that are used to kill so many, the guns. all the polls i've seen recently indicate that the american population is following the political leadership who are missing in action, most of them on this issue, by increasingly being in favor of, if you will, relaxing of gun laws. isn't that the tragic irony out of this. the more of these we have, seemingly, we have less interest in trying to focus on trying to control some of it in terms of some type of effort to control guns. >> right. and of course the opposite view would be to emphasize that these guns were purchased legally and that we have to focus on the individual. there w